Hair-ornament attachment



I comm/m.- HATR ORNAMENT ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED MAR 16, T921.

Patented-Sept. 13, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC GOLDMAN, OF NEW YORK, IlYYZ, ASSIGNOR TO HYMAN 8t OPIE'ENHEIM, 0F

1 NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF YORK.

HAIR-ORNAMENT ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 13, 1921.

Application filed March 16, 1921. Serial No. 452,658.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC GOLDMAN, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at New York city, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New Yorl! and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-OrnamentAttachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to toilet articles and has particular reference to hair dressing appliances.

In the dressing of a ladys hair it is a common expedient to employ one or more artificially made or prepared hair pieces, such as puffs, switches, waves, curls, transformations or the like, the same to be held in place by various means or expedients, including t e use of combs, pins or other articles in tended for ornamentation as well as for hair holding functions. 7

Among the objects of the present invention is to combine a. hair piece, meaning by such term to cover any type or design of hair manufacture adapted to be detachably worn upon the head in connection with the wearers natural hair, with a mechanical fastoning member such as a comb or pin, in such a manner that the fullest possible holding effect of the pin or ornament will be realized while at the same time full value of the ornament, as an ornament, will be realized. In my extensive experience in the hair goods business I am aware that hair pieces have heretofore been secured to the hair by fastening pins or the like, but generally the function of the pin, as an ornament, is practically neutralized or destroyed as a result of the connection of the hair piece to the ornament by means calculated to hold the hair piece largely on the outer side of the ornament, thus obscuring the same and detracting from its usefulness as a hair ornament.

A further object of this invention is to provide an artificial hair piece in combination with an anchoring or fastening member in such a manner that the anchor end of the hair piece, that portion which is woven or otherwise secured in a close mass, will be so obscured as well as being held by the fastening member, as to present to the fullest possible extent a natural appearance to the artificial as well as to the natural hair of the wearer, the anchor portion of the hair piece being not only obscured by the ornament or fastener but being so held thereto and thereby as to prevent any possibility of relative movement laterally between the hair piece and the ornament. In the following description the term ornament will be employed as indicative of any pin or other ornamental fastening member.

With the foregoingand other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view indicating one of the many forms in which my im provement may be expressed and showing the combined hair piece and ornament.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section indicatingthe combined hair piece and ornament.

Fig. 3 is an outside plan view of the anchor end of the hair piece prior to attachment thereof to the ornament.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings I show a hair piece 10, one end portion of which is woven into what may be termed an anchor portion 11 and through which ordinarily the hair piece is adapted to be secured to the natural: hair of the wearer by any suitable arrangement or combination of hair pins; or other fasteners, while the flowing or loose portion of the hair piece may be dressed in any direction over or in connection with the natural hair and fastened by a net or other mechanical means.

12 indicates an ornament indicated as a pin having a cross bar or head 13 and having two important functions,-first, that of an ornament strictly, and secondly, a fastening means for the (puck application and secure holding of the air piece. In all events, as shown, the ornament is such that the head thereof is in one piece with the fastening means and extends in practically the same plane therewith.

Without unnecessarily restricting the scope of this invention to any specific means for attaching the hair piece to the ornament I indicate that the anchor portion 11 of the hair piece is tacked or stitched, as at 11 to a flat strip of sheet material 14 such as celluloid or other analogous tough strong material adapted to. lie substantially flat against the inner surface of the head portion 13 of the ornament. After the anchor plate 14 is secured to the anchor end of the hair piece strong connection is made between said plate 14 and the head of the ornament. Any suitable means may be provided to accomplish this purpose, but in my practice I have found most suitable for this purpose the use'of a film 15 of cement such as 001- lodion, which when applied and quickly dried effects practically an integral union between the anchor plate 14:- and the head of the ornament and which is of a practically permanent nature.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that with the application of the ornament to the hair in any natural and easy manner that portion of the ornament intended for observation in the use of the device as an ornament will be in plain sight, andmoreov-er, will serve to hold the anchor end of the hair piece beneath it and hence in the most favorable position to neutralize any artificiality inherent therein that might otherwise be noticeable. Moreover, the manner of application of the ornament on the outside of the hair piece is such that any tendency to separation between the ornament and the hair piece in practice will be practically neutralized, the pressure of the ornament tending to increase rather than diminish the tenacity of the union between them.

I claim:

1. The combination of a hair ornament comprising an ornamental head and fastening means lying in practically the same plane therewith and of unitary construction, and a hair piece carried by the inner surface of the hair ornament and held thereby in place 011 the wearers head.

2. A device as set forth in claim 1 in which the hair piece has a woven anchor end portion and means is provided to secure the anchor portion of the hair piece to the inner surface of the ornament.

3. A device as set forth in claim 1 in which the hair piece includes a woven anchor end portion and the means for securing the hair piece tothe inner surface of the ornament includes an anchor plate fastened entirely between the ornament and the wearers head in practice.

i. The combination with a hair piece having a woven anchor end portion and a hair ornament constituting the sole means to fasten the hair piece in wearing position, of means to fasten the hair piece to the ornament comprising a flat plate of thin strong material stitched directly to the anchor end portion of the hair piece, and a film of cement serving to secure the anchor plate directly and permanently against the inner surface of the ornament, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ISAAC GOLDMAN. 

